House of La Tour d'Auvergne

The house La Tour d' Auvergne was one of the most respected noble families in France. The best known members of the La Tour d' Auvergne, the French general Marshal Henri de La Tour d' Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne.

In addition to the Vice- county Turenne belonged to the county of Auvergne and Boulogne family, but especially the Duchy of Bouillon and the Principality of Sedan; application of these two possessions of the German - French border region, who were both sovereign states, had the La Tour d'Auvergne, the status of a Prince étranger and ranked in order of the hierarchy of the French nobility among the first to the king.

Origin

At the house of La Tour d' Auvergne is original to the family of the lords of La Tour in today Puy-de -Dôme in the Auvergne, which first appears around 1206 with Bertrand I, Seigneur de la Tour. Meanwhile, the great-grandson Bertrand II married the heiress of the rule Olliergues 1275, after which the family has shared in the next generation into two lines: one older, who remained in the possession of La Tour, and one younger, who inherited the erheirateten possession.

The Count of Auvergne and Boulogne

Again, through a marriage ( the marriage contract was closed in 1389 ) reached the La Tour in the possession of the counties of Auvergne and Boulogne, which, however, lost the early 16th century due to lack of male heirs to the Medici.

The Viscount of Turenne

Even more successful than the older line was the younger. 1444 got Agne IV de La Tour permission to marry Anne de Beaufort, the heiress of Pierre, Comte de Beaufort -en- Anjou and Vicomte de Turenne; with their son François I. ( † after 1493 ) begins the line of Viscount de Turenne out of the house La Tour.

Henri de la Tour, Vicomte de Turenne ( a grandson of the Constable Anne de Montmorency and even Marshal of France ) married 1591 Charlotte von der Mark, since 1588 sovereign Duchess of Bouillon and Princess of Sedan, after whose death in childbirth after the birth of the first 1594 child (a son, who died on the day of birth ) went over both titles on him, which he could then to his descendants from his second marriage inherited ( with a daughter of William the Silent ). His older son from this second marriage was Frederic Maurice de La Tour d' Auvergne (1605-1652), the younger of the later General Marshal Henri de La Tour d' Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne ( 1611-1675 ). The descendants of the Duke Frédéric Maurice held Bouillon and Sedan until the French Revolution, she died 1802.

Another important member of the family is Théophile Malo Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne (1743-1800), the grandson of an illegitimate son of the first Duke of Bouillon out of the house La Tour, who are buried in the Panthéon in Paris ' premier Grenadier de France ".

Castle Sedan

Personalities

  • Emmanuel Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne, Cardinal
  • Henri Oswald de la Tour d'Auvergne, Cardinal
  • Théophile Malo Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne
  • Madeleine de la Tour d' Auvergne
County of Boulogne Auvergne (region) Château de Sedan
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